Comments on: Thylacine In Tantanoola Tiger Terra?http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thylacine609/
for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and MoreThu, 08 Dec 2016 15:32:59 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1By: Heatherhttp://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thylacine609/comment-page-1/#comment-55197
Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:29:47 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=17141#comment-55197I grew up in Casterton, western Victoria, and vividly remember travelling through a back track that came out near Lake Mundi one night. A number of strange animals crossed the road in front of the car, they were bigger than foxes and didn’t have bushy tails. I have no idea what they were, but we still discuss then over 40 years later. There could be anything in the scrub there, and there have been a lot of sightings of Thylacines on that area in my life time.
]]>By: charlie23http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thylacine609/comment-page-1/#comment-55176
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:08:30 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=17141#comment-55176“Assyrian Wolf” = Canis lupus pallipes (now known as the “Iranian Wolf”, Assyria referring to the ancient empire that once encompassed much of upper Mesopotamia).
Ironically, the Iranian Wolf was once thought to be the direct ancestor of the Dingo (probably due to the similarities in it’s short coat and light color) but DNA has disproved this.
]]>By: dogu4http://cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/thylacine609/comment-page-1/#comment-55150
Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:14:18 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=17141#comment-55150Interesting story, or stories, since there seem to be a number of facets to it, and discounting one doesn’t necessarily shed light on the others, such as circus animals or shipwrecked castaways of the 4 legged variety. Testing the DNA will be a good place to start regarding the taxidermy specimen. Hope you’ll keep us posted.
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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:55:02 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=17141#comment-55144Ignore the bad taxidermy job; I’m much more interested in the Thylacine sighting!

I’m wondering about the more recent sighting that you posted. The man mentioned specifically the tail of the sighted creature; didn’t the thylacine have a smooth (as opposed to bushy like a fox or wolf) tail?

I know the quality of the only film of the thylacine from the zoo is pretty bad, but it seemed to me that the thylacine had short hair and smooth coat.

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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:45:12 +0000http://cryptomundo.com/?p=17141#comment-55133Thomas “Fos” Donovan shot the Tantanoola Tiger on August 21, 1895. The carcase was stuffed “lacquered a little around around the gums to give a savage look” and displayed in a glass showcase at the Tiger Hotel in Tantanoola.

In the 1957 a 90 year old man Alf Warman of Adelaide South Australia visited the hotel. When he saw the stuffed tiger he exclaimed “that’s my dog”.

He explained how he had come to be the owner of the beast that had terrified the district more than 60 years before.

Alf Warman was a young survey worker in the growing colony and was given by his brother a puppy, the offsping of a female European Deer Hound mated with a Blood Hound.

As the pup grew Alf found him too large and hungry to keep at his Norwood (a suburb of Adelaide) home so he was sent to relatives of Norwood’s mayor in the south east of the state to help kill wild dogs.